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This symposium will discuss the impact of Human Rights in Latin American and Iberian cultures. The event will address the complexity of literature, culture, and international law as a result of the turn to authoritarianism in the 1970s, and the issues encountered in the transition to democracy since the late 1980s.
We seek to emphasize the contribution that continued research in the Iberian and Latin American worlds can make in the building of an atmosphere of good will, solidarity, and trust between the United States, Latin America, Spain, and Portugal via the exchange of their experiences in politics, the arts (high and low), popular culture, literature, investigative journalism and testimonials. Another objective is to alert the University and the community at large of the danger implied by the abuses of Human Rights by the State, and the annihilation of privacy and liberty that comes with the notion of a controlled society or a democracy under surveillance. |
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The Hubert H. Humphrey Conference Center University of Minnesota |
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA |
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The sponsoring University of Minnesota departments and organizations of this event include: Spanish and Portuguese Studies; Office of the Vice President for Research; College of Liberal Arts; Institute for Global Studies; Carlson School of Management; Human Rights Center; Chicano Studies; Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies; Political Science; History; Philosophy; German, Scandinavian and Dutch; Sociology; English; African American Studies; Art History; Theatre and Arts, and the Human Rights Program.
Contact Dr. Ana Forcinito aforcini@umn.edu or Dr. Raul Marrero-Fente rmarrero@umn.edu for more information / 612.625.5858 |
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PROGRAM
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
- 2.00pm-2.30pm - Welcome
- 2.30pm-3.25pm - “The Question of Torture” John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh
- 3.25pm-4.20pm - "Cultural Diversity and Cultural Rights."
George Yúdice, University of Miami
Break - 4.35pm-5.30pm - “Los Desaparicidos: the Latin American Experience as a Narrative Framework for the International Norm against Forced Disappearances." Barbara Frey, University of Minnesota
- 6.00pm-8.00pm - Reception, Humphrey Bistro West
Thursday April 24, 2008
- 10.00 am-10.55am - “Who Speaks for the Human? Dispensable and Bare Life” Walter Mignolo, Duke University
- 10.55am-11.50am - “Human rights/sexual desires: Incest/Pedophilia/Rape”
Ileana Rodriguez, Ohio State University
Lunch Break - 1.10pm-2:05pm - “The Gravitation of Narratives of National Identity on Human Rights: The Case of Chile” Hernán Vidal, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- 2.05pm-3.00pm - "Negationism and freedom of speech."
Joan Ramon Resina, Stanford University
Break - 3.10pm-4.05pm -“Unpacking the 'human' in 'human rights': Bare life in the age of endless war" Idelber Avelar, Tulane University
- 4.05pm-5.00pm - "Cultura y pobreza.(Transformaciones y derechos culturales en el Uruguay contemporáneo)" Hugo Achugar, University of Miami